If you haven't heard yet, today Southwest flight 1380 from NYC to Dallas suffered an engine explosion while at cruise, resulting in rapid decompression to the aircraft. The plane landed safely in Philadelphia. One person on board is now confirmed dead after a piece of shrapnel from the engine went through the aircrafts window (causing the decompression) and nearly sucked the passenger out of the aircraft.
Southwest Airlines went on social media confirming the tragedy today. The person who died today is the first passenger of an airliner to die during an aircraft emergency over the U.S.A. since 2009.
Thoughts and prayers to the victim and everyone involved. Today was very sad.
@Sunnyskies Yes
@trumpetguy You're right. Some engine builders often only design the engines, leaving the aircraft designers to design their own cowls. I often forget the unique design of the cowl was entirely a CFM solution. The failure IS their fault after all (or possibly the fault of whoever was providing maintenance for these engines). Also, I was more concerned about the cowl than the actual engine. The fatally-poor ability of it to provide projectile-containment is rather serious.
Still, it would be smart for Boeing to work on a safety solution as well. The shrapnel did penetrate parts of the airframe after all.
@trumpetguy Yes
@Sunnyskies Doesn't Boeing only create the planes, not the engines? There's a Michael Crichton book (Airframe) that has a situation very similar to this one; the plane company got a lot of bad press even though they didn't make the engines. So in this case, wouldn't it be the engine company that's trying to figure out what went wrong?
@ForeverPie yeah lol
:E
@ThePlaneBuilder1775 Yeah. I was talking about the one where the guy on the ground died.
@ForeverPie he broke into the cockpit. i was talking about an accident where the guy died on the plane. there was one accidental ground fatality though
but still, RIP southwest's near perfect record. May 5, 1967 to April 17, 2018
@ThePlaneBuilder1775 Near perfect record. They killed one guy before this.
RIP southwest's perfect record. May 5, 1967 to April 17, 2018
@Sunnyskies ooooof RIP
Serious failure of the engine cowl.
They are supposed to be engineered to prevent high-velocity projectiles from escaping in the event of a blade-off. They contain many layers of Kevlar to prevent fan blades from punching through.
The fact something was left with enough energy to penetrate the fuselage and kill a passenger is indicative of a potential design flaw in other 737 engine cowls.
Boeing's engineering department is probably abuzz right about now. No doubt some sort of new safety design will be implemented because of this.
@ForeverPie I have heard that the passenger who passed was a VC for a business
I saw this at the news.
lol @ForeverPie
@GritAerospaceSolutionsLTD Allegiant Airlines owns Scarebus planes.
Might do the JetBlue thing to Ryanair, I have to fly with them in July and August. @ForeverPie
I much prefer Boeing over Airbus but my favorite aerospace company is Tupolev. @ForeverPie
@GritAerospaceSolutionsLTD I laced it with Boeing propaganda.
Scarebus? @ForeverPie
And what was Airbus? @ForeverPie
@GritAerospaceSolutionsLTD For about an hour, jetBlue was officially called "Flying Blueberry"
What did you do something like Airbus Iss Dum. @ForeverPie
Tut, tut, tut. @ForeverPie
@GritAerospaceSolutionsLTD I straight up vandalized the jetBlue and Airbus pages.
I’m blocked too for some reason. Wiki users aren’t as nice as simpleplanes users. @ForeverPie